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The purpose of the current study was to study the emotional expressivity as a moderator of the effect of locus of control on help-seeking attitudes in Asian and Western countries. 76 Asians and 69 Westerners participants completed the Inventory of Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services (IASMHS; Mackenzie et al., 2004), Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire (BEQ; Gross and John, 1995), and Rotter’s Internal-External (I–E) Locus of Control Scale (Rotter, 1966) to measure their help-seeking attitudes, emotional expressivity, and locus of control respectively. The result showed that internal locus of control and negative emotional expressivity predicted help-seeking attitudes in both Asian and Western countries. Negative emotional expressivity and internal locus of control at the same time predicted help-seeking attitudes in both Asian countries and Western countries. The only difference is negative emotional expressivity negatively predicted positive help-seeking attitudes in Asian countries but positively predicted positive help-seeking attitudes in Western countries.

Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Dept. of Counselling and Psychology.